that's why there's also an investigation headed by tom pickering, a leading diplomat from the reagan years who is doing an investigation as to whether or not there are any lapses, what the lapses were, so they will never happen again. >> they wanted more security there. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. >> keeping them honest, there is now sworn testimony that the request was, in fact, made. the former regional security officer in libya second from the left there, telling a congressional committee that he asked for additional security for benghazi months before the attack but was denied. the white house today in what you might call damage control mode, saying mr. biden was speaking just for himself and president obama when he said we weren't told. mitt romney today called it doubling down on denial. so those are two issues that are sure to come up again when the president and governor romney square off on tuesday. tuesday at least until it gets here, it means everything. >> as we said, there's new polling, the debate fallout and always so close to the election, a lot more